[2021 article] 1.4m lower-income Singaporeans to receive GST vouchers from June 23: MOF

[Travis_Touchdown]

more than 50% low income. this one is considered swiss standard anot ah?

swiss cheese standard...

 

[Wu-Han Clan]

median household income is how much????
oh fyi.. median is like the middle 50 percentile..... nt avg, avg is mean...

if 1.4mi qualify out of how many sinkies... what percentile is that???? you can almost chart the rest of the graph yourself....

 

[TheBFG]

25% (out of a population of 5.69m) of Singaporeans are under the lower income category, i.e. earning 28k or less per annum. Are these people mainly students and retirees?

 

[mrnoballcarrier]

Heng ah I still get despite staying condo coz I have HDB and condo

 

[sizzy6]

what i see is original sinkies are falling off and they using new citizens to buff up the nunbers

if take away new citizens.. i think all the stats will be damn skewed

 

[eatingtunic]

nett pay $1.9 also cannot get...nonsense to the max...

 

[Visor9999]

Yes I am one of them, can’t wait to get the $200 voucher asap

 

[iPod Jack]

Thot everyone here smelly smelly $5k a mth?

come out sch liao oredi 3.5k?

 

[Ultimo_Urien]

All here 20k a month not eligible la

I chao peasant earning take home pay a ** 2.8K nia lei...

 

[sanzhu]

I unemployed cis only 7 dollars n hour

 

[A Better Tomorrow]

swiss cheese standard...

Cai png for life!

 

[Bunknifer]

Singapore Population estimate: 5,896,686

Citizens about: 3,523,000

Say 20% are non-working kids ... that works out to 2.8M folks (include old folks)

1.4M = half our citizens are lower income

 

[Empyrean Cobalt]

so many low-income in sinkieland

wats ish happening to dis island dat once aspired to reach Swiss Standard of Living?

 

[Zinna]

What is the cut-off annual income to qualify? 1.4m is alot leh, like 25% of the population

 

[aabbccddeeffgg]

A lot of retirees, businessmen underdeclaring or never declare income, students and self employed traders in that figure lah

 

[FT_FTW]

1.4 million eligible. 760k of them are above 60 years old. So about 25% of sinkies in prime years are so called lower income

 

[Apex01]

Singapore Population estimate: 5,896,686

Citizens about: 3,523,000

Say 20% are non-working kids ... that works out to 2.8M folks (include old folks)

1.4M = half our citizens are lower income

This group of 1.4 to 1.5 million lower/No income citizens will always be there for many years.
That's why the govt must import one million hardworking foreigners to make the overall manpower stats look good

 

[Perisher]

I tot median income ish 4k? how come so many ppl eligible?

unless their median income count cpf employer and employer contributions

yes it's included.
median is closer to $3.8k
4,534/1.17 = 3875
https://stats.mom.gov.sg/Pages/Income-Summary-Table.aspx

 

[Perisher]

1.4 million eligible. 760k of them are above 60 years old. So about 25% of sinkies in prime years are so called lower income

mathematically, sounds about right...

 

[PeanutButtor]

median household income is how much????
oh fyi.. median is like the middle 50 percentile..... nt avg, avg is mean...

if 1.4mi qualify out of how many sinkies... what percentile is that???? you can almost chart the rest of the graph yourself....

The median somemore is their median value in their tabulated table. It is not showing the numbers of sinkies fall in this median value. It give a wrong impression sinkies is coping well or barely with the rising expenses. In reality if we were to count each one of these ppls and evaluate them, it will definitely fare worse than the impression they gave it to us.